Almost a year to the day I reviewed Zapruder’s eponymous LP where I gushed about how much I thoroughly enjoyed all of it’s sun-soaked, whisky stained goodness. It was almost written in the stars that today the band would be sharing the brand new video for “Leaving Montreal” with us here. The French math something band take to the road in a smoothly executed and overtly charming journey. Jump in…
The premise of a two-piece rock band can present some concerns. Just for lack of sheer people power, duos always have some hurdles to overcome and preconceptions to defy. Will they sound “full” or do they come off as incomplete? How do they incorporate leads without a third player to…
Irish quintet God Alone may be young enough to have no functional memories of the nineties, but they are already up to their third release – a self-titled EP that you can find linked at the bottom of this article – and have cast their net of influence wide enough…
When Kunal from Transcending Obscurity Records sent us the promotional material for Officium Triste’s sixth full-length record, I was unsure what to expect. Mainly because, much to my shame, I hadn’t heard a scrap of their music before. I know, I know. Legendary band that’s been around for two decades…
For a six-year run leading up to and through The Ark Work (2015), Hunter Hunt-Hendrix’s output as Liturgy made him public enemy number one in the black metal community. Some of this wasn’t entirely his fault, namely the unexpected “indie seal of approval” bestowed on Aesthethica (2011). The album’s response was essentially a lighter version of the Sunbather (2013) debacle that enraged the “tried and trve” crowd. It certainly didn’t help that Hunt-Hendrix published a manifesto titled Transcendental Black Metal: A Vision of Apocalyptic Humanism, because nothing impresses metal fans more than a hyper-pretentious, pseudo-intellectual analysis of their favorite genre,…
There’s something about niche genres that allow artists to connect with their audiences in ways that the larger beasts of…
Welcome, folks, to this, the latest installment in our “A Constant Knowledge of Death Are Actually Insane and Are Releasing…
Another week, another serviceable yet disappointing follow-up from an Australian supergroup… Emerging from the ashes of Australian grind legends Blood Duster, Fuck I’m Dead and The Day Everything Became Nothing (the latter two aren’t technically split up, but still), King swiftly silenced any skepticism over their change in direction with their debut record Reclaim the Darkness (2016). Not that anyone should have been surprised. Frontman Tony “Tone Bone” Forde made no secret of his growing fondness for black metal during Blood Duster’s later years: the band’s final two releases being the masterful Lyden Nå (2007), whose moniker was intended as “homage…
There’s a lot happening in the music world, and we here at Heavy Blog try our very best to keep…
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Cattle Decapitation’s transformation from novelty goregrind act into one of the premier progressive/technical death metal bands of the modern era has been one of the most surprising and rewarding events in modern extreme metal. Now (at least) three records into a career-defining hot streak that’s rivaled by few if any of their peers, the San Diego quintet no longer need to prove themselves. They can sit comfortably at the top of their game, lauding the considerable gap they’ve established between themselves and their competitors—which is exactly what they do on Death Atlas. There are no surprises in store here, just…
Greetings, post-ers. Hope you’re getting good and cozy as the first chills of the oncoming winter set in (up here…
Editor’s Note: I’m glad to welcome longtime reader Remi VL as a regular guest contributor to our Release Day Roundup posts!…
Brutal death metal is a 50/50 proposition for me most of the time. There are several bands in death metal’s nastiest of branches (Wormed, Devourment, Disentomb, Aborted, and Defeated Sanity, for example) that push the boundaries of what the most authoritative sounds in death metal can and should be. However, if I’m being especially pointed, the majority of the subgenre is directionless, uninteresting riff-salad that I find neither entertaining nor fulfilling. Thankfully, bands like the above pull the entire group up a notch in overall quality, and few more so than Londoners Unfathomable Ruination. Since the release of their first…
